These plants grow densely and quickly

A privacy hedge as an alternative to the wall

With tricky products like special ones Stone baskets Nowadays, it is no longer necessarily a question of the appropriate official approval whether you can build a wall around your own garden or not. Of course, primarily with its stability, a wall offers a certain feeling of security and durability. In addition, for example Stone walls represent a very decorative and ecologically valuable design element in a garden with their very special flora and fauna. Often, however, walls also act as a deterrent or even constricting when they are on level ground at a certain height and effectively prevent any view or breath of air. One Privacy hedge from plants such as beech, thuja subspecies or the evergreen cherry laurel, on the other hand, offers a similar level Privacy, but is still a little more permeable to light, air and various types of small and medium-sized objects Microorganisms. Many bird and insect species need dense hedges as a breeding ground and habitat, which is why they also fulfill a very important function in the garden.

The care required for a natural privacy screen in the garden

The maintenance effort for a natural privacy screen in the garden depends of course not only on its dimensions in relation to the length, but also on the height and width of those planted in a row Trees and Bushes away. The following in the planting of Privacy hedges particularly popular plants exhibit such high growth rates that a pruning can be necessary up to two or three times a year:

• beech
• Forsythia
• Weigela
• Climbing plants like Knotweed and wild wine
• jasmine

Conversely, this vigor also means a relatively high need for nutrients in the form of fertilizer and compost as well as good cut tolerance, since errors in the cut usually recur very quickly as if by themselves grow out.

Make your own natural privacy screen out of natural materials

Not every natural privacy screen has to be one living privacy screen Act. With a little patience and dexterity, privacy fences and mats can also be made from natural materials such as reeds, hazelnut branches and other materials. In particular, the fence-like screen variants made of branches and other pieces of wood can subsequently be used as a climbing aid for one blooming privacy screen use.

Naturally integrate privacy hedges into the garden design

In a well-designed garden, privacy protection hedges are not just a means to an end Property line, but can be used as a flowering shrub wall or as a green trellis made of climbing plants such as the wisteria and the Trumpet flower even represent quite significant accents in the visual composition of different plant species. Ideally, you should pay attention to a predominantly tiered structure of the individual garden areas in which In the best case, lower perennials in front of the higher privacy hedge also have a color contrast represent.